I don’t understand your argument here. Are you saying “because the discipline is lower paying, the school’s reputation shouldn’t matter as much to the OP”? Because it seems to me that the opposite would be true… if the job market is tougher in this discipline (my D26 is also applying for BioE, and we’ve heard there are not a lot of jobs out there), wouldn’t a student have more incentive to go to a school with a strong reputation in this area?